Saturday, October 22nd between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
South Parking lot entrance to the Narragansett Beach, RI

Marc Levitt’s
Audio Winds #2; Stories in the Sand: An Audio Art Walk Along Narragansett
Beach will debut at Narragansett Beach on Saturday, October 22nd between
11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
AudioWinds #2 is an audio enhanced walk along Narragansett Beach that
reveals some of the conversations, sounds and music that might have been
heard over the last one hundred and thirty years. Available on the web
site as a download and available on the date above at the South Parking
lot entrance to the beach along with MP3 player you can borrow, is suitable
for ages 12 and up.
From conversations about tearing down the village at Narragansett, to
romantic yearnings, to conversations about the Depression, these snapshots
from our times are joined with the music of the beach’s history
heard through transistor radios, boom boxes and seaside orchestras.

"I don’t come to this project by accident. Narragansett
Beach is ‘my’ beach. I walk here, think here, eat here, swim
here and talk (lots of) here. I’ve been at this beach in the heat
of the summer, at 5:30 in the morning and at midnight. I have been here
in all seasons, in the hear of summer, after hurricanes and during snowstorms.
I have seen the waves crash into the parking lot and over the sea wall
and I have watched blue fish swim next to my feet. With AudioWinds #2;
Stories in the Sand I celebrate this beach – thank you for joining
this celebration by now turning Narragansett Beach into a site for audio
art."

Marc Levitt
is a writer, storyteller, radio host and artist living in Wakefield, Rhode
Island. His Audio Winds #1 was placed behind
RISD’s Chace Center in Providence (May-July 2010) and used the sounds
that could have been heard at that location over the last 500 as notes
in an orchestration. Funding
for the project is provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State
Council on the Arts through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General
Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private
funders and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent
state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.